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I'm personally suffering from Long Tyranny still. Just can't seem to shake it.

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Sounds like the teens are suffering from rapid onset COVID dysphoria.

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i have 2 family members that had long covid, i believe some of what you say here may be true however i also see what they eat and its fucking disgusting, they are walking lumps of toxicity. diet may play a role in this, of course their children eat the same shit!

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Long Karen is a form of chronic karentitis.

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"Muh long covid" are simply jab side effects swept under the same rug. It's all so tiresome.

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Two excellent pieces in one day!

I am a simple person. And often confused by fancy numbers.

I reached the same conclusion through observation.

These are the same people who went out and bought 200 rolls of toilet paper for 15 days to slow the spread.

They're always going to need "help".

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I totally want to join team mock the made-up diseased people, but it’s easy to do that when it’s not you. I have two autistic boys and I’m told either A) I must be a sucky parent (sometimes I won’t argue that), B) it must be in their genes, or C) nothing is wrong and it’s totally fine to behave the way they do - who says you should be able to speak functionally anyways?

We’re in a mess, people. Blaming anxiety, the parents, or what have you is not helping. People are not all right, and making light of it doesn’t help.

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I saw another article explaining that symptoms don’t need to be continuously present since the Covid diagnosis to be Long Covid.

I now wonder if my aching knees aren’t “middle age” but actually Long Chickenpox

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Gato Malo persists in dismissing, out of hand, those with Long Covid. While I agree the commonly held 25% figure may be high, and that there are hysterics and imposters impersonating Long Haulers for secondary gain, I dispute Gato's premise here, which is that this is primarily such a situation. In the first place, Gato is entirely incorrect stating that there are "no known biomarkers." Bruce Patterson's group has very clearly identified persistent biomarkers of inflammation in those who have Long Covid. They do a panel of around 12 biomarkers including Interleukin 6, Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha,-13,-2,-4,-10, CCL5,4 and 3, and others. Feel free to look it up at IntellDx. I have one patient with very clear Long Covid symptoms including persistent loss of smell and brain fog. She had positive biomarkers per Dr. Patterson's panel. Secondly, Gato is particularly vicious in his ad hominem attack on those afflicted, with statements such as "most of its loudest proponents are the anxiety raddled and the chronic disease grifters." Such pejorative language is insufferable, given the fact that many people, including three of my patients, one of whom is a young relative, suffer very clearly from Long Covid. I don't know what Gato's agenda is here, but it certainly is not objective or very becoming for an otherwise helpful source of information. Please desist!

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Yet still no mention of amyloiditis, protease and prion diseases.... I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss 'brain fog' as spike breaks down and/or crosses the blood/brain barrier... This is not new speculation or research, why then dismiss it as due to the feckless?

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In other words, a bunch of hypochondriacs.

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Well except that there are those who DO know what fibromyalgia is. (When it's real, which is not 100% of the time.)

It's a corn allergy. (Or sometimes another food allergy.)

Those who find their allergies and get _completely_ off of both their allergy(ies) and _all_ processed foods with hidden ingredients eventually find they don't have it anymore. Because you're part right, the disease actually doesn't exist... but at least _some_ of the time the symptoms actually do.

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I totally see the point here, but on a personal note, I've noticed something similar in my hubby (we're unvaxxed, unmasked, blah blah). His bout with Covid was really traumatic; we both thought he was going to die. He managed to stay out of the hospital and made a full recovery, but has had insane problems with heat ever since, which sucks bc we live in AZ. He literally gets something like heat stroke that lasts for about three days every time he gets too hot, even if it's only been an hour. Doc can't figure it out, and yes, there's part of me that wonders if it's mental. But it sure seems real and it affects our lives. So to say that it's not a thing at all seems a bit extreme to me.

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Parent: Doctor! Doctor! My child is lethargic and depressed, do you think it’s long Covid? I’m sure that’s what it is!

Doctor: Um, nope. Your child was lethargic and depressed before 2020. Don’t you remember? I prescribed more exercise, less TV and better nutrition at the time. That still holds. Beside he didn’t have Covid. That was you. Stop projecting on to your child. Besides, you don’t have long Covid either. You were lethargic and depressed before, too.

Sadly, I doubt that conversation ever happens.

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Turbo Gaslighting.

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"No, no, no", I hear from Long Covid Haulers, "I literally have symptoms that are not going away; this is not in my head". As if mental and emotional stress have never in the history of medicine manifested into physical symptoms.

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